Count Bassy

Never mind Tim, what about TIM?

More likely, I'd have thought, that the Piezo 0v wire is touching the bridge and the bridge is earthed to the socket, so it is seeing a link between the Socket Earth and the Socket ring - which is what normally turnes the whole system on. SHould be fairly easy to find whatever it is.

As it happens, no I haven't. But that's irrelevant, we are not talking about an Alembic, but the Brian May Bass. I'm not saying that the mounting position of the upper strap stud is unimportant, just that it it cannot be taken in isolation. You need to know where the centre of gravity is, which is affected by many things. For example this bass has high mass bride and Ultralite tuners. Obviously the depth, width, and wood of the neck also have a big effect. I'm not saying that this wouldn't have neck dive, it might or it might not, but you casn't say that it will based on some arbitary rule about the 12th fret. Personally I would have prefered a longer upper bout, but A: that is more to do with the way the strap lies across the shoulder than the balance and B: It would no longer be a Brian May bass.

Totaly depends on where the centre of gravity of the whole thing is, and a mahogany body (if solid) will tend to move that towards the body end.

I'd have thought that with a mahogany body it would probably balance pretty well. Scale length is, concidently, exactly the same as my first (& only) home built bass.

Yes, but the effect is that the basses become more prominent, which I think was the original point that someone made.

I wondered if anyone would spot that 😝. Well spotted, and thanks for pointing it out.

Not an acoustic expert, but just looking at the graph: at 1KHz the boost is 92.5 to 95dB, ie 2.5dB, but at 100Hz its 97.5 to 103dB, so a boost of around 5.5dB, and at 60Hz you're getting over 5dB boost. So yes, you do a boost all over, but it does seem to be greater in the bass end. Please correct me if I'm missing something. ** Corrected to 5dB - Thanks Barkin!

Not had much of a bass playing career as such, but this is my conclusion as well.- and the punters reallycan't tell the difference/ don't give Shlt.

I always thought that this was needed, so glad to see someone's done it. But at that price - perhaps not.

But not in the corridor

Perhaps Tinitus man was being sarcastic?

I thought it just sounded dire. Mainly due to PJ herself.

I find that very hard to believe Tim.

You could do a lot worse than listen to some Andy Fraser or Neil Murray.

In the old days perhaps, but hammerite is a shodow of its former self these days.😉😉

If only it didn't have that one string missing.

Why not just put a CD on and everyone go to the pub?

Come on man. Spit it out. Tell us what you really think!

I belive it makes a very Hardy fretboard.

Well, I didn't know that Johnny Vegas played drums!

Me too. You beat me to it.

I guess that when I said twaddle I meant that i just find that sort of thing leaves me totally cold, same goes for Michael Manring's stuff. More of a Norman Watt-Roy type myself (and no I can't play that either).

All very clever, but twaddle. And no, I couldn't do it.

Peter Gunn, if you're prpared to go above the 5th fret!